- Palestine Civil Society: What Now
- Russian Voices Against Putin’s War
- International Responses to Sumud Flotilla Capture
- Serbia’s Free Organisations
- Latin America in the Crosshairs
- Sudan and the Call of Green October
- Unions Up Against It
- Convening the UK Left
- Impeachment, Crime and Protests in Peru
- Italy’s Palestine Strike: It Wasn’t Spontaneous
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Palestine Civil Society: What Now
Palestinian BDS National Committee
To remain in the streets is not a rejection of negotiation; it is a demand that negotiations finally mean something real. Our presence is a reminder that moral pressure must not fade simply because politicians have found new language to disguise an old injustice. In the absence of accountability, protest becomes an act of moral preservation — the collective conscience refusing to be silenced.
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Russian Voices Against Putin’s War
Simon Pirani / European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine
The two aggressor nations, Israel and Russia, aligned with different geopolitical camps, are subject to analogous driving forces. Nationalist ideology supercedes rational economic management; expansionist violence supercedes democracy; the decline of Western neo-liberal hegemony paves the way for militarist thuggery. Capital’s need for social control underpins near-fascist methods of rule.
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International Responses to Sumud Flotilla Capture
Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières (Paris)
A round-up of news and comment following Israel’s interception of the 40+ boats trying to break the Gaza blockade.
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Serbia’s Free Organisations
Mark Johnson / Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
On 5 October 2024—exactly 24 years after mass protests helped oust Slobodan Milošević—a coalition of local civic movements announced their formation as Slobodne organizacije Srbije. SOS emerged to answer a critical strategic question: how can decentralised grassroots resistance translate into systemic political change?
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Latin America in the Crosshairs
Ana Cristina Carvalhaes and Luís Bonilla-Molina / Links (Sydney)
Why are Mexico, Brazil and Venezuela being targeted? While important, the argument that all three governments are, in the eyes of Trump’s neo-fascist hawks, “leftist” is insufficient. In Trumpist terms, this just means any government it views as opposed to it on the political-ideological spectrum, or not a direct and subservient defender of US capital’s interests, regardless of significant differences among them.
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Sudan and the Call of Green October
Khaldah Salih and Fathima Cader / Africa is a Country (New York)
From Sudan to Toronto, a revolutionary poem echoes across time, showing how people’s movements confront militarism, mining, and imperial order with the enduring force of collective struggle. True power is manifested through organized mass movements of regular people.
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Unions Up Against It
• The Power of Informal Transport Workers Dave Spooner / Global Labour Column (Kassel, Germany)
• Hong Kong and Myanmar Benjamin Velasco / Global Labour Column (Johannesburg)
• Canada: Attacks on Public Sector Unions Tom Sandborn / rabble.ca (Toronto)
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Convening the UK Left
Antifabot / The Canary (London)
This festival, The World Transformed, showed that the ‘top-down’ approach of governing doesn’t just need dismantling within our political parties, but also within the very core of our movement and its grassroots mechanisms. It represents a political landscape that has eroded so massively that younger people are filling the vacuum left behind with what they feel their own political future should be.
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Impeachment, Crime and Protests in Peru
Devin B. Martinez / Peoples Dispatch (New Delhi)
Peru’s Congress overwhelmingly voted to remove President Dina Boluarte from office on the grounds of “permanent moral incapacity”. The emergency session was called to debate her impeachment amid the most recent wave of mass anti-government protests that have been escalating since September.
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Italy’s Palestine Strike: It Wasn’t Spontaneous
Davide Gallo Lassere / Verso (London)
After months of preparation, on September 22 a political strike was called in Italy by the grassroots unions in solidarity with Palestine. Its extraordinary outcome took not only the ruling classes but even the demonstrators themselves by surprise.
